[AquaticLife] Bio-Spira Strains
NO DORA…
I’m not sure where your “theory” comes from but there is one well-known bacteria that consumes ammonia and converts it to nitrite and another that we now know about that consumes the nitrite and converts it to nitrate. You need both of these to complete the nitrogen cycle.
I really do not know where you got so stuck on nitrospira as the main or only bacteria (you referred to it as “biospira” in your post but you mentioned nitrospira earlier in the same paragraph so I’m presuming you meant nitrospira).
For years and/or decades, it was thought that the two nitrifying bacteria in FW aquaria were nitrosomonas for ammonia and nitrobacter for nitrite (you can still find these references in older articles about the nitrogen cycle in aquaria) but Dr. Tim’s research (which I might add has been heavily peer reviewed and proven with actual working products) proved it was not nitrobacter but rather nitrosospira and nitrospira which is why the original Bio-Spira contained nitrosomonas and these other two. It worked where the other products that only contained one strain or the wrong strains did not work as advertised.
I’m ending this debate with you at this point unless you come up with something new on your part as I’ve stated and restated the “facts” as I know them and I’ve given links to the actual patents and to peer reviewed science and you simply do not want to let all this knowledge in because of some perceived personality clash between you and Dr. Tim.
There’s that old saying about you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink and I think that’s where we stand on this issue.
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